Anna Dickinson SPEECHES 7 WRITING FILE Miscellaneous NotesWhen Geo. Henry Lewes in "An Epistle to Anthony Trollope", made the bold assertion that "no actor has been known utterly to fail as Hamlet", he forgot four classes of actors, whom perhaps he did not consider actors at all. These are, first, the infant prodigies; second, the ladies who attempt the part; third, the men who burlesque it; + fourth, the men who fail not only in Hamlet, but in everything else. (p.883) XXXXX On the long file of the bills of Hamlet upon the New York stage the name of a lady is occasionally foundin the titular part. The most daring and successful of these mongrel Hamlets was unquestionably Miss Charlotte Cushman but even the genius of a Cushman was not great enough to crown the effort with success." (7.884) "A Century of Hamlet" by Laurence Hutton. Harper's Monthly Nov. 1889 Negatives - Nargelli 3 Fare to Boston 1 50 Stateroom, dinner TC 3. Thomas - lithographs 75. [*D. 50.75 R 30.35*] Hotel Bills - Boston 81 10 Fares to N.Y. 12. Parlor car 3 Polishing and hauling marble bust[?] 4 2 newspaper men, lunch, Boston 5.25 Messenger boys - Boston 2. Printing dates on Lith's. " 3 Feb 5 Seer - printer, N.Y. 15 News, Feb 5 4 days 6 Graphic -- 4 Commercial Adv. -- 2 Post -- 2 40 Mail -- 2 Express -- 2 40 Telegram -- 4 Star -- 6 Sun -- 16 252 65Received from A.E.D About Jan. 20, 1879 $40 Jan. 27, 1879 $200 Feb. 3, 1879 $100 Total $340 Feb. 5 A.M. Palmer $50 Total $390 $390 -$369.52 $20.48 Carried Over $252.65 Feb. 5 Tribune Feb. 5, 4 days $12 Times $8 Herald $16 [Nored?] (sic) $8 Dramatic News $5 Telegram, Baldwin S.F. $3.46 Telegrams in Boston $5 " to A.E.D.: Feb. 5 $1.80 " " Bernard before Boston $.86 " " Carpenter " " $.75 Carriage Boston $3 4 Dinners [unknown] $4 total up to Feb. 7th 1879 $320.52 Cash on Hand $49 Total $369.52 [Expended?] in gin, cigars and other journalistic commodities $20.48 Total $390 Feb 8 Cash on hand 49. Feb 9 Rec'd from D.H. Harkins 323 50 " 10 " " A.M Palmer 50. $422 50 417.03 $5.47 Feb 8 N. Y. News Ad for Sunday 1.50 " Noah's Times - 1.50 " Times - 2. " Star - 1.50 " World - 2 " Mercury - 2.50 " Sun - 6. " Herald - 6 " Telegram from Hath op 29 " " to Pugh 33 " Messengers with tickets &c 3 " Lunch & dinner 250 " Evening papers 26 Feb 9 Carriage for A.E.D 350 " Messengers with tickets notes 126 " Dinner 1.25 " Wine for Harkins & party after lecture 3.50 " Sunday papers 43 " E & S. for reporters of lecture 2 " Cigars to ushers, ticket seller, &c 1.50 42 82 Carried over 42 82 Feb 10 To A. E. D. 300 " Balance to Thomas $100 in all 25. " " " Seer $22.25 in all 7.25 " Tickets to S. Op. House for A.E.D 2.50 " Messenger with them 50 " Dinner with Harkins 2.55 " Daily papers, morn. issue 37 " Message to A. M. F. 30 381.29 Cash on Hand 35.74 $417.03Edwin Booth in writing of the elder Kean (his father's great foe) "The fact that Kean disliked to act Hamlet, + failed to satisfy his critics in that character, is no proof that his personation was false. If it was consistent with his conception, + that conception was intelligible, as it must have been, it was true. What right have I, whose temperament + mode of thinking are dissimilar to yours, to denounce your exposition of such a puzzle as Hamlet? He is the epitome of man kind, not an individual, a sort of magic mirror in which all men + all women see the reflexof themselves, & therefore had his story always been, is still, & will ever be the most popular of stage tragedies." Stutton says, in quoting this "The Younger Booth, writing of the elder Kean, comes to the defense of his father's foe in the following noble and well chosen (!) words: "- xx "That E. B. should not have written concerning the Hamlet of his father in the same charming vein is greatly to be regretted. L. H. Ibid.d Page 870 That Kean believed in his own Hamlet in his younger days there can be no question now, & he gave to it the closest study until the widow of Garrick induced him to alter his reading of the "Closet Scene", & to adopt the manner of her husband, an innovation which left him ever after dissatisfied with himself in that part of the tragedy. (Ibid 868) He says of John Howard Payne's boy Hamlet (1809-1811) "He went upon the stage with little professional training, & with barely sufficient intelligence to play the parts of Rosencrantz or Guildinstern, but he drew enormous crowds, & put money in his purse." Ibid 868 (Hamlet, Park Theatre May 1809) - 1792 - appearedas Young Norval in 1808. - & 3 years before had himself started a newspaper "The Thespian." Hazlett considered Kean's kissing of Ophelia's hand, (in the famous scene in act 3) "the finest commentary that was ever made in Shakespeare: Manuscript copy of speeches of the actors in the play scene, & turning its leaves back & forth to hide his nervousness. The German's also drew out tablets to set down dozen or sixteen lines to be introduced? charge, ? eeds, ? l, ? its forth ? destruction. ? rid let it be by men ? these famished beggars! Stanley/will he bring his power? He does refuse, my lord;--he will not stir. Off with his son George's head lower battle let young Stanley die. Why/ after be it then./ and hearts are swelling in my bosom; archers, draw your arrows to the head, your proud horses hard and ride in blood; om, our warlike champion, thrice renowned George, inspire me with the rage of lions; 'em: -- charge : -- follow me! [Exeant, R. and hearts are great within my bosom: our standards set upon our foes; ancient word of courage, fair Saint George. Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons! Victory sits on our helms! Upon them! Charge! A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse! [*only flight can save you.*] K. Rich [?] my life upon a cast, and the hazard of the die! [Exit Catesby. [?re] be six Richmonds in the field, [?] slain to-day instead of him! My kingdom for a horse! [Exit [?] , or both of us, the time is come. CURTAIN. ?oul & body / on the action / both lay: - here's to decide it.[Tuesday Morn] [Pittsburgh (not Wednes or Saturday) Wm H. Kincaid time terms & subject - to be given] [Kingston. (Lecture night Wednesday) R. Bernard Time and subject - to be given. Jan. 25.] [Mrs. P. E. Curtis (in Jan) Detroit, Mich.] [Penn. Inn New York Geo R. Cornwall. ] To send him time & subject. [Hamilton New York Madison Co Wm G. Walker] To send him time & subject [Boston. Mrs. H. N. Tyler. Care of Mr John C. Haynes 227. Washington St. 25 of Oct. - Subject to be sent.] Elmira. [Ira L. Hare. - After Nov. 20. time & subject - to be given][Adrian, Mich. Rev. E. P. Powell. time & subject to be given] [Ann Arbor, Mich. C. S. Fraser, - [To hear if terms are satisfactory] Time & sub. to be given.] [Binghampton, N. Y. J.M. Johnson, Time & subject to be given,] [Jns W. Chapman, - to go to Greenfield & Brattleboro, of [???nt] to ] [Geneva, N.Y. Arthur P Rose. Time & subject to be given] [New Haven, R P Cowles [prefer Jun 5 or 10,] Feb. - time & subject to be given] [Chas A Chase. Worcester, Mass Feb. - evening & subject to be given] [Hillsdale, Mich. Time & W.E. Ambler. Subject to be given.] [Middletown, Conn.] New Bedford, Mass H. B. Clark Esq. [Feb. 27 or] March [14.] 14. to give subject. [Auburn, N. Y. Chas. B. Wood.] Meadville, Pa. Time & B.E. Edgell. Subject to be given.] [Springfield, Mass Wm. Rice. (To be heard from)] [Salem, Mass. [to be heard from] N. A Horton. [Time & Subject to Feb. 9. be given] Lewiston, me. (to be heard from) E. Lands. [Leominster, Mass. Sub to be given T.H. Drake Feb. 1 Samuel H. Virgin] Portland. Foster No. 1 Tolman Place out of Congress St. M.A. Blanchard [???]. 1841 not on a Wednesday. To send subject Wm H. Anderson. March 6. New Brunswick x NJ Jersey City, March 7. Rev. J. M. Holmes. x [Fall River [Norwich], Monday, 13.] march Norwich _16. New London 17 [*X*] John. C. Kellogg L. Metcalf (early in April if I go Northampton, Mass T.T. Collins April to write to him sub &c Westfield,. Mass Friday March 10th Meriden X New Haven. 9th X Newburgh. N. L. March 8 X Jacob Brown subject [Hartford, Middle 20 & 21] [March] [Andover Mass Friday 24 & 23] [M C Gulliver March] March, [26]. Z.E. Stone to return Lowell Mass X 24 March 2 next winter Lawrence [& Haverhill ] R. M. Hobbe. *X* March [27 & 28] & 29. [*EEE*] [Portsmouth, N.H. March 30] [John L. Rand] [*EEEEE*] [*EEE*] Lewiston Maine E. Lands ..Miss Lizzie H. Plumer [*EEE*] Friday .31. March [*EEEEE*] [*EEEEEE*] [N. L. Swanton April 3 Portland Bath, Maine.] Gardiner. April 4 [?Tho] M. Holmes. + to return x Augusta April 5 Stanley House [Chas.] H. True. [&] x march Hartford. 20th Supositon Chas. D. Warner. Middletown. - 21st March X Southbridge - 22nd March. charlton to return H.C. Gray. X Lynn. Mass March. 27. Williamsburg April 20. John. L. Belly. + Nashua. W.H. March 28. Phila. 22.+ + to return April 28-. Paterson Aaron King/ D. B. Liekels + Bangor. April 6th A.T.. Barnes April + 24. Brooklyn Clinton ave+ Atlantic Pawtucket-. 13 March. April 26. Binghamton E.B. Chase + H. N. Lester H N Lester H N Lester Providence to return. March 15. [Syracuse April. 27.] R. M. Larned + [Rev. T.J. May] H D. Lee. 1. Leominster 23. March. Seneca Falls April 28 S. H. Virgin T.Parish + April 10, 11. 12, 13, 14—17 + 18 Rochester [May 1] April 27 L. Merriam, Jas. N. Chapman. And Whittlesey 43. Plymouth Ave. X Geneva. May 2. Arthur P. Rose [Utica. Horace E Day] April 19. Havana May 3. X John Phin. [G. C. Brunah?] W.T. Brach April 19. Poughkeepsie +Elmira, May 4. Ira T Hart. + Joseph B. Teabury May 11. Andover. + Easton Jas K. Darves. Box 11. Newark. [?] T. Hutchings merchant's Bank. N. Y. City Westfield, May 10. Northampton, May 9. Rev J. M. Walden. Cin. Ohio Mrs. H. M. Hoyet Hoyt Detroit Mich 2 Speeches next winter T. P. Collins. Westfield & East Hampton. Trumbull & Gee. Northampton. ufel [Buffalo. - 30 [31 or 2]. - J N. Larned. Chicago. Kate Daggert. - Mrs. Livermore Syracuse. 17. - T. Hough. Duties of hour H.W. Allen. Albany, [Q?.] Ames . T. Lancaster St Albion, 12 E. Kirk Hart. 12 Hudson, [21 or] 23. T. R. Rainey Rev. J. M Holmes Jersey City [26 or 27]. Mrs Samson. Rochester. John Bower. 13 . Nov [Newark, Wayne C. N. Y.] Poughkeepsie. - [24 or] 25. - Prof. Eastman (Geo W Bungny) Yonkers Everett . Clapp. 24 or 26. correction] N. E. Concord. Worcester.Dec 67. Lyc & Lib Asso. Chas A. Chase. Springfield. Norwich. [6 & 7 8] Dec. 8. G.W. Huntington. Waurega'n House. Meriden. Danbury. Henry L. Hoyt. Nov. 10. Erie R.T. Goggin. Elmira. - March. Ira P. Hart Rondont. March 4. N.York. Henry M. Crane. [Erie. - Pa. R. L. Gaggin, last of Feb.] Meadville, Pa, Feb (T.L. Slocum Hillsdale Mich. T. T. Mead. Jersey City W. A Bartlett. 13 Elm Place, Brooklyn N. Y.West-. Jacksonville, Ill. Wm. H. Atkinson. Rod. 459 Peoria. Ill. J.J. Miller. Milwaukee. Wis. H. T. Weeks. expens"man Hotel bill" accep. St. Louis. Mrs. Alfred. Claff. Mrs. E.H. Bushnell.- Care of Browning & B. B. - Quincy Ill. Schuyler Grant- (Ann- Arbor. Mich.Tuesday Dec. 6. Binghamton J. M Johnson Owego to return Sister. E T Holdridge 9. Trueman Elmira 4.45 PM. Ira. p. Hurt. Dec 8 Mr Langdon to return Meadville. Dec 12. B. E. Edgell to-return to-return Pittsburgh, Wm H. Kincaid 14 & (15) or 16. Dec 259 Penn St.- Adrian Dec 19 Rev. E P. Powell to- return Hillsdale Dec 21 W. E. Ambler Chicago. Dec 23. H.M. Shepard 24 to return Ann Arbor. [Dec 28] C.T. Fraser. Jan 4 to return [Detroit [29 & 31] or Mrs. B. E. Curtis 30 & 31.] Buffalo. Lyman K. Ross.. Jan. [2-&] [4 or 6] 6 - 7.Lockport. [10.] NY J.M.Helmer Jan 11th to return [Rochester NY] { 9 [Fred. A Whittsey 10 Jan] { Erie [43 Plymouth Ave ] { J.S. Jordan Penn- Lan NY to return Geo. R. Cornwell 12 Jan. Geneva N.Y. Arthur P. Rose 13 Jan Auburn N Y to-return Byron C. Smith. 16 Jan Syracuse N Y Mrs. Hamilton White 18. [Oswego]. Oneida N Y H. Devereux to-return 19 or [20] [Hamilton Wm. G. Walker. Madison Co.] Troy, N.Y. 23 or 24 Henry H. Darling Henry Crane to return Kingston N Y. Jan. 25 Rondont {Jacob Brown R. Bernard {Newburgh. N. Y. next winter 26 Poughkeepsie N Y house of Mr John Grubb Jan 27 to-return Burnap. Mass Vt. Greenfield & Brattleboro James W. Chapman Jan 30 & 31 Mass. Leominster. Feb. 2 Samuel H. Virgin Fitchburg. Mass. Feb. 3. Mrs Caroline M Mason. (B Snow Jr. Esq) to return Worcester, Mass. Feb. 7. Charles. A. Chase Salem, Mass. N.A. Holton Feb. 9. to return Springfield Feb 8 or 9. [10] Wm Rice. to return New-Haven Feb [13.] 16. R.P Cowles. Bridgeport. Feb. 15. T. T. Clapps to return.522 Jackson st. M.W. Austin 620. Utica. Theo. P. Cook. Leominster, Mass. Lowell. Frances H. Drake [North Burlington, Vt. E. C. Houghton.] Cold Water, Mich. T.A. Harrington Galesburg, Ill. Mrs. Mary A West Ann Arbor, Mich. W. W. Dedrick Salem. O. John Harris. [Adrian, Mich. E.P. Powell.] [(Colored &c = Cleveland, O. B. T. Green.] [H.C.M. Ingraham.] [Middletown Conn.] Dec 20 Oberlin [Ohio.] J.M. Partridge Toledo [Ohio] John H. Doyle. [*No. 2156 -[ Metropolitan Bank Rochester.] N.Y. Nov. 14.*][Lockport.] J. N. Barker. Elmira. Ira. F. Hall. Buffalo. Wm. Wilkeson. Erie. R. F. Gaggin. Meadville. S. L. Slocum. Rochester. Mrs. Mumford. [Mattie Griffith. Room 20. Cooper Ins.] [Oneida] H. Devereaux. North East, - Wm. H. House Erie Co. Pa [Geneva. Chas] D. Vail. N. T. Indianapolis. Saml. B. Hoefgen. X Skaneatiles N.T. Geo. P. Morgan. Corning. N.T. C.P. Cole. Kingston. N.P. (M M Frisselle Wednesday. Binghamton N.P. J.M Johnson. Troy, NT. Henry H. Darling. Westfield. L.P. Collins. Norwalk. Huron Co. Louis. D Strulton Ottowa Emelia D. Linney North Bennington Vermont E.C. Houghton (I to give date Detroit- Mrs. P.E. Curtis 281 Jeff Avenue. two, if possible time to be givenGeneva, NY Chas D Vaie. accepted (not for March 1. To be answered Oneida. NY. H. Devereux, accepted, - (I to write Lockport. J. L. Barker. I to write, accepted. Milwaukee. wis. Horace. G. Weeks. (Mrs. S. & Mrs. Carr) at - house of Sarah. L. Austin. to write. Indianapolis, Saml B Hoyger. I to write, accep. Cleveland. - Mrs. Ellen F. Terry. 23, 24, 25, 26 of Feb. Toledo. John H. Doyle Time to be given. Adrian, E. P. Powell, - want two nights, - not Feb. 4, 18, or 25, - prefer 11 & 12, - or a night between &c. - to writeWilberforce Univ. Xenia. Ohio. Promise to do some thing for them next S. Rev. D.A. Payne W. W Davis. Sterling Ill. Chas. K. Coutant. Kingston in Nov or Dec if possible Geo. L. Hutchins at Merchant's BK. Newark, N.J. "[Claymore?] .. N. Y. Z. E. Stone. Wednesday in Jan or Feb. Lowell. Mass. Amherst. Oct or Nov. Tuesday & Wdnsday N. Brookfield [Dec. or Jan.] E. H. Barlow 3 Bale's Block. Grand Rapids Mich Byron D Ball F Morey. West-- Brook - ? field Nashua, Worcester A. King Dec. or Jan if possible Loyal R. Durand Milwaukee [*Rev. W.A. Bartlett. 13 Elm Place Brooklyn - to be answered definitely.--in the early fall. Oct.*] [*Salem. N. A Horton.*]For External Use 1/8 oz Tincture of Myrrh .4 oz Pimpunal Water .4 oz Elderflower Water 1 gram Musk 6 oz Rectified spirits of Wine fin and rub 3 days before full Moon the 3rd must be full rub the brest upwards and look at the Moon, saying Heavenly light just as you increase [?] inso shall the breasts I rub increase also say the (Lords prayer Hail Mary and then in the Name of the Father, the son & the holy Ghost - the last and 3rd time you say Amen not before then go Silent to bed not to break the spellSir Mr. Longshore you will oblige the public by sending some one to clear the brush out of the roads, as the thorns are dangerous to those passing the road.Dec 2 59. J. Brown Feb. 60 Clarkson Hall April " Mullien H[a]ill Goosetown Aug New Jersey Oct " Kennett Sq. Winter 60 & 61 [Dennd?] County & Theatre March 61 Woman's Hart. April 61 Mint Oct. 61 West Chester & G. Winter Small Hoots 62 Early Spring 62 New England Providence Newport - &c & then Sunday April &c Music Hall. came home in June. Oct 62 Naternity Course Manchester &c. Jan 63 Concord & New Hampshire & Maine April 63 Conn. N. Y. Phila &c1/ Women Speakers, 7.5.69 The first woman I ever heard speak was the first woman I ever had a chance to hear. Her name was Abby Kelley Foster; she was refined, inspired, but so far ahead of her age that she was a potion too strong for the mental digestion of the average man. She was a woman speaking in public & that was not to be tolerated. She spoke against the then cherished institution of slavery & for that she was to be mobbed. In the International Council at Washington, in 1888, I heard some of her former associates say that she went to Church one Sunday in a certain town where she had spoken the night before, & the minister took as his text, " That woman Jezebel which calleth herself a prophetess" & rained oratorical fire & brimstone on the poor little 2/reformer throughout the morning service. Let us remember this, for there are those who are around nowadays by shortsighted mortals whose children will be very likely to build the sepulchers of those whom their father's traduced, I was a little girl when I heart Abby Kelley, for it was before we left Oberlin, So that my impressions are not as definite as I could wish. The next one was a woman whose name I do not recall, I think she was a spiritualist, & she spoke in a little out-of-the-way hall in Milwaukee, When I was a student there in 1857. I had to coax my Aunt Sarah for some time before she would consent to let me go, but she finally did so as a concession to what she called my "everlasting curiosity", sending me in charge of a city friend. The woman was perched3/ in some queer fashion midway between the floor & ceiling. I think she had short hair. I know she looked very queer & very pitiful, & I felt sorry, for my intuitions told me that a woman ought to be at least as good a speaker as a man & quite as popular. Nothing of all she said remains with me, except one sentence, which I half believe is a fragment from some poet: "I love to think about a central peace subsisting at the heart of endless agitation." [*o*] The next woman I heard was Anna Dickinson in the handsome Crosby Opera House, Chicago, during the war. The Auditorium was packed; on stage occupied by the most distinguished gentlemen of the City, no ladies being allowed on its select precincts save one, a young woman - hardly 4/ past twenty, who came forward with poised, elastic tread, took her seat modestly & smiled her thanks as thunders of applause woke the echoes of the great pavilion. Her dark, curly hair was flung back from her handsome brow, her gray eyes, of which a gifted man had said, "They make one believe in immortality," glanced around upon us with a look of inspiration. What she said I do not know, but it set vibrating within my spirit the sacred chord of patriotism, for Anna Dickinson was queen of patriots. Going home that night I could not sleep, for I heard as clearly as I had done in the audience the cadence of that wondrous voice, its courage, its martial ring, & its unmeasured pathos. Beyond all men & women to whom I have yet listened, Anna Dickinson has been to me5) an inspiration. In 1875 I met her first when I was President of the Chicago W.C.T.U. & she came to the city to lecture. Her agent wished her to speak iin Evanston, & I think I never had more pleasure than in using my influence to secure our church for her & entertaining her in my own home. According to her custom, she refrained from eating till the lecture had been delivered; then we had supper in our little dining room & I sought to have it to her liking. We remained at the table till two o'clock at night, for we were all so much delighted with her conversation that my dear mother, for the first time, forgot her early hours & sat there until after midnight, We talked of things past, present, & to come. "If we had known each other always we could not have had 6/ more abandon. My mother said to her, "What do you think of Christ?" She paused as if she had been smitten with a blow, then changed the subject skillfully, but made no answer. When I showed Anna to her room she put her arm about me saying "The question was so sudden that I hardly understood your grand old mother's meaning. What do I think of Christ?" And then for several minutes she spoke of him with an eloquence & tenderness that I have never heard excelled & rarely equaled in the pulpit. Later on I saw her many times, for she spent weeks at the Palmer House writing her plays. The National Temperance Society had a great convention in Farwell Hall during her stay. I remember Vice-President7/ Wilson spoke & other distinguished men & women, among them all who were leaders of the National W.C. T. U. I had prevailed on Anna to be present at one of these meetings where the question of equal suffrage was to be debated. Miss Lavinia Goodell, a lawyer from Madison, Wis., daughter of William Goodell the noted antislavery reformer, moved, at my suggestion that Miss Anna Dickinson be invited to speak, & at once the house manifested both excitement & applause. The friends of the pending resolution wanted her help the foes dreaded her voice. But the motion prevailed by a large majority, & as she came along the aisle & ascended the platform 8/ I could think of nothing except Joan of Arc. Indeed I suppose she has reminded everybody of that great character more than any other woman could. As she stood there in the pride & plenitude of her magnificent power, simply attired in a walking suit of gray, her great eyes flashing her eloquent lips tremulous at the thought of what was pending, she was a figure long to be remembered. Often as I have heard her speak, it seems to me that day crowned all. It was not so much her words, as I read them in cold type when the meeting was reported, but it was the mighty spirit that moved upon the hearts & consciences of those who heard. She seemed an avenging angel as she depicted the injustice that fastens saloons upon this nation, & gives women in9/ the home no remedy & no redress, although they & their children must endure its awful cruelty & shame. Our resolutions carried & that was the first gun of the ever thickening campaign in the midst of which we now are, & whose final result will be woman regnant in the state, an outlawed liquor traffic & a protected home. How earnestly I pleaded with Anna Dickinson to come with us in the temperance work! Sometimes she seemed half persuaded, but the brilliant friends around her were patrons of the drama; she felt her power, & I am one of those who when she was entitled by her gifts to make a magnificent success upon the stage. Earnest & tender were the letters I sent her & eloquent of hope the bouquets of flowers. Indeed, for some months I was 10) conscious that my spirit was polarized toward this splendid specimen of womanhood. When she was writing her last book "A Paying Investment" I saw her almost daily. She said to me, with her inimitable smile, showing me the chapter in which a capital argument was made in behalf of the temperance work, "See, Missy, I wrote that for you." One evening I took Elizabeth Comstock, the dear old Quaker philanthropist with me to her hotel, & we made a combined assault upon Anna to devote her gifts to the temperance reform. She took a hand of each in her strong, warm palms, & said, "Kind hands, gentle hands, & sisterly, fitted to the deeds you do, & to the burdens that11/ you carry. Go your own sweet way & do your work, but leave me to do mine in my own fashion. Your souls are calm & steadfast while mine is wild & stormy. Let me go my way!" Her voice trembled & tears were in her eyes. After that I knew the case was hopeless, but my love & prayers have followed her all the years, & I have been grieved, as words may not relate, in all the griefs & losses that can come to her. Everybody agrees that our present Queen of the Platform is Mrs. Mary A Livermore, than whom no American woman has a better record of patriotism & philanthropy. We women of a later time were fortunate in having for forerunners the two remarkably endowed women I have named, & we should be forever grateful to that statesman-like speaker & Chief-Reformer, Susan B. Anthony, to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the philosopher, & Lucy Stone, the heroic pioneer, who still earlier bore the brunt of battle for us, & whose names millions of loyal hearts will cherish. 12/ As a speaker, Julia Ward Howe has a rare niche of her own among the most cultured women of the century, & surely our gratitude to her will not be less, who has laid fame & fortune on the altar of a sacred cause in circles the most difficult to reach & win. The platform is already a conquered field for women; so is the pulpit in all senses save the sacerdotal, & here our progress is steady & sure. God bless the generous-hearted men who from the first have fought valiantly for the fulfillment of that blessed prophecy, "The Lord gave the word, the women that publish the tidings are a great host."Enquiring En passant By the way Earnest Explosive Emancipated Ensemble [*introduction*] exordium - epilogue Ennunciatory Alive ionary Evolution (act of unfolding Evolation ( act of flying away exigent pressing tion whitening plants Etiolate to whiten by excluding the sun SVS. W. Feb. 4 1891 N. S. Mr Palmer Dame Daughter Democrat Extra Expectant - hope, trust prospect of good Expeditiously, speedily nimbly expostulator toryat Peterboro - every year = G. Smith her 1st cousin - there L. Mott, Abby Kelly &c with the men. The Conventions at P. where everything was discussed Slavery Temperance &c (married 10 of May, 1840 1839 (a month) Two carriage loads of guests drove off every morning to one of these conventions, returning late at night, The entire season of the people in these great meetings, the thrilling oratory, & lucid arguments of the speakers, all conspired to make these days memorable in my life x x I had become interested in A.S. & Temp questions, deeply impressed with the appeals & arguments. I felt a new inspiration in life, & was enthused with new ideas of individual rights & the basic principles of Governments; for the A.S. platform Hated Red. - Red Coats & - all English - (Blue) = Given to "tantrums in early times. Brother died - "would you were a boy." = (11 years) Study Greek & ride horseback. "Would you were a boy" on her "Should have been &c" on her G & Latin prizes &c ["my sad human....] Her first lesson in duplicity her anguish &c - the exchanged compositions, "[Perhaps the ] experience was beneficial, as it is quite necessary for a young girl thrown wholly on herself for the first time among strangers to learn caution in all she says & does" no disguise Different from home life of honesty &c - to jealousies & antagonisms. H B S. " then considered the most eloquent & impassioned orator in the A.S. platform" Phillips G. ThorndykeThe anniversary number of "World" Sunday May 10 1903 of Women, - (all Kinds, no A.D. "Woman in History & the News" "World" Dec. 20. 1903 The enormous change in a few years - women's independence in all paths. - how made , by whom &c. no A.D. "Oratory, art & Music" (Passing of Chickering Hall) Has been the stage of All Three" Pond &c talking - & Reporters say of almost every speaker of note of last 50 years. no A.D. Tribune Sunday 2.18.1900 Remember specially with this "Platform & Stage"-also speaks of passed Steinway (same thing when that had been recorded - no A.D. then "The curtain in those days" (palmy days of Lyceum)" was the dividing line between a lyceum & a theatrical audience. The lyceum appealed to a class of people uneducated to the theatre & prejudiced against it. Now all that is changed, clergymen & their families not only go to the theatres, but are in the line of entertainers" &c ( have there own shows &c [The day] All sorts of college halls &c everything has its own "Day of the Lyceums is certainly gone. x x People won't come when invited." x x x Then goes on after some stories "The Wales of Chickering have reverberated to the wit wisdom and eloquence of W.P. &c &c The Booksellers League had a "Ladies night" at Hardman Hall when Maj. J.B. Pond gave lecture (pictures on screen, lot of women all praised Ann Eliza. Stanton Anthony Livermore &c Told of Mrs. Scote-Siddons as reader most successful - 1883 - 4 -5 - made $70.000. He spoke of A.D. as a modern Joan of Arc, & expressed regret that she, who had been such a great actor in real life, should have yearned for the triumphs of the mimic stage, for which she was whollyunfitted & on which she was such a total failure." N.Y. Times. 1.18.1896. Tells about the wonderful Livermore did for the Chicago Fair & the soldiers &c Pond talks about my beginning, at a Quaker (secular) Meeting (the Bear Garden) - & tells as much truth about me as of that! ____ Great statesman - politician, orator (invaluable to Rep Party! of course! &c) What to herself? This great woman had a passion for the stage & after having established a just claim to be regarded as one of the greatest actors in a true sense in her Country's history, she yearned to win the reputation of a great player or the mimic stage. Of course, she failed. The stern and stalwart personality, the imperious individuality that made her a great factor in the history of her day, disqualified her for excellency on the stage, but not even her most devoted friends could conceal or deny the fact that she was a deadfailure" Pond in the Saturday Evening Post Sep. (9) 2nd 1899 "The Eccentricities of Genius" (In Article) Famous women Pond has about the same as this in April, 1896 "Cosmopolitan" maga in an article on "The Lyceum" [35 banquet scene To bed, to bed / there's knocking at the gate ./ Come / Come Come / Come give me your hand Whats done,, cannot be undone; To bed/, to bed,/ to bed.] at the close of the article after he has spread himself about Helen Potter & her impersonations * A.D. among them. Had to add A.D., herself. - In his article in "Cosmopolitan" mag. July 1896 Great Orators & The Lyceum tells. of the big three Phillips, Gough, Beecher knowing as he has said elsewhere that it was G. D & B., or even D G. & B. - does not mention A.D. tho' he has a lot to34 [*N*] I tell you yet, again / Bough's / buried:/ He cannot / come out his grave, {She has leaned over back of chair or } Kneels,} Chair can be left at clear — even so ? {if she wants business of doctor, starts, {turns head goes up, listens, hurries {back, taking the whole for Duncan {or if she notes it not the "to bed, to {bed" is with the bouquet tenderness, {then she starts away to Duncan {listening &c & speaks to hand. — {then pause, Changes again, comes {to the chair, this time I think to {kneel &c & give her action of close of people like, Adler, Schurz Gable &c who never were O.K. on the Lyceum platform & winds up with Stanton, Anthony & Livermore. In the April article it is put as tho" She were merely a political wonder &c - & in all of his articles & in all the newspaper reports & comments A. D. is dead. The whole matter is "has been" even after my descent on his office. [+] Remember the scene at the Acad of Music, H. Hawkins, what she was doing[*33 No more O'that, my lord, no more o'that! / You mar all / With this starting. {She goes then to a scent bottle &c, {tries to perfume her hand while {they are speaking. [*Soft*]— What she has known. Here's the smell of the blood, still: / all the perfumes of Arabia / will not sweeten, this, little hand. / Oh, oh, oh! [*Draft*] {she is buried in despair till {she sees he needs prodding { then's at him x Wash your hands/, put on your nightgown / look not so pale. / {Looking at him anxiously &c {buried again in herself, & {coming out to Banquo, _ She { first acts as tho' she had spoken*] with my property. - How ill I was. - What losses & agony I was enduring - these same newspapers x Pond &c saying I was bankrupt yet pushing her on in her path of robbery & infamy, - & how she was not applauded but hissed in the Acad &c The visit to J.B. Walker - The Lyceum card he tried to steal & its value - told I could32 What need we fear who knows it /, When none, can call our power to account? / {great assurance &c, & then horrified {recoil as she sees or smells her lifted hands Yet / who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him. (all N {complete change then back to Banquo — do you mark that? The Thane of Fife had a wife: / (meditative) Where is she now? / {again sees or smells them, the {reverse of her former action. What / will these hands [*N*] ne'er be clean!? {washing them with energy, & {starting away as when sees what {Macbeth is doing with Banquo, {& repeating some later banquet business. not duplicate it - The demand of why A.D. was out of his way in July (find the notes &c) & his suggestion that I write my soul and conscience out on paper [in]is not a matter of fact statement (as in Herald article,) but a spiritual photograph of A.D.s why & how of early speech & specially of the first meeting in Conn Campaign.Bryan Meeting at Rink - Brooklyn Sep 31 Out / damn'd spot. / Out, / I say,/ (listening) One: / two:/ Why, / then tis time,-to-do't. /— {through a still space, & the three {following words she repeats the {business of the scene through. {which she is waiting for Macbeth {to come from Duncan's chamber. {Have it markedly significant x Here / is murky!/ {She goes away from Duncan, {walks, or changes whole effect {to the business of the banquet {when she comes down &c Fie / my lord, fie! /a Soldier / & afraid? {back then to Duncan 30 — No witness to confirm my speech. {enter, — tis her command, {she turns to go to basin &c. Dr. sees {her eyes. — Sense is shut. {pours water. — does now? {Dr pauses while she begins to {wash her hands. — a quarter of an hour. [*x*] x x x [*n*] Yet here's a spot. — hark! she speaks. {still more intent, rubbing violently[* 29 {She goes to the open door following {them- or to the window, in need of air {& speaks from there when he asks ______________What is the night? Almost at odds with morning, which is which. ______________At our great bidding. Did you send to him sir? ______________ere they may be scann'd You lack the season of all natures sleep ______________young in deed (exit)*] Study the scenery & decorations of the drama before beginning to unfold the story Parties fighting almost at haphazard like sharpshooters at night obloquy - displeasing to friend & adversary " I bend no more before the red heel than before the red cap Alexander Herzen [*28 Ross or Lennox has been prying & as he speaks, Lady Macbeth recovers & goes up to throne , & makes her adieu &c from there while he is buried in his miserable thought. — What sights, my lord? I pray you, speak not;/ he grows worse & worse; Question enrages him, going hastily to throne & assuming in manner & place the authority of the Queen. At once good night. Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once. __________better health attend his Majesty) A kind good night to all! {She is afraid of him- to approach {him &c. As he grows reckless, she {grows fearful &c*] Hours for "Examination of conscience" obloquy Does not disturb me He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks" - The Truth, Stripped of everything, Fame, name, Honorable Labor - kinship with humanity." The mould of the churchyard holds none people shrink away from more[s] [plain] bread winning [brain] toil of brain and hand, all that[*27 My worthy lord, / Your noble friends do lack you. — Which thou dost glare with. Think of this, / good peers, / But as a thing / of custom:/ 'tis no other,/ {She comes down graciously among {them & so within his reach later. Only / it spoils the pleasure / of the time. — pray you, sit still. You have displac'd the mirth,/ broke the good meeting - With most admir'd disorder {he takes her by the wrist turns {her round, scans her with wonder {& honor, & flings her away from {him & himself into a seat with { disgust & dispair in his head & hands.*] belongs to me, gift of God, endowment of nature, skill of experience, name, Fame record of work - carried away. Held by the assassins in their [Care of Silent] - Mortuary Chapel for slow death I have on my side the vital essence that [permeates] endures through Eternity - The TruthWhy the New York papers combine to say I was vile & advise people to stay away on account of my vulgar attacks on public men. What I did say of a few as against what they & others had said, & what I said of Jake formulated & tabulated accusations facts of proof, while the Tribune after informing me I was to be "reported in full" (through Smith) "whole page or mores," did not even mention the item that I had spoken. Silence was assent "who quits the game, loses the game" The state of things at that time being [*HOWARD M. HOYT'S PATENTED APRIL 4th, 1876 4th Ave, cor. 82d St N.Y. Indestructible Book Binding.*] leaving her S Smith of the early matter &c that the Trib had the "regularly com" lies, - with certificates - whose forgery lot, & the garbled letter. - Letter to Hummel, sent throug M. & W, told "forwarded to its destination" -"if as you say ["]it is in the the hands of my lawyers &c,. - Its destination was for them Jake - Hummel did not have it & could not produce it, - never anywhere but in garbled shape in Trib., - Also my telegrams, could not find them. - Higby came & threatened me with them, - they had them then. - Had been passed on (in 91.) had them in 92. - Hummel secured them [*HOWARD M. HOYT'S PATENTED APRIL 4th, 1876 4th Ave, cor. 82d St N.Y. Indestructible Book Binding.*]- for whatever cause - & sent them to me in (95? And with the most damnable of all lies - inuendo - "showed no sign of mental abera &c 26 {into herself. He is, at last, masters — Which might appal the devil O proper stuff! / This / is the very painting of your fear! This / is the air drawn dagger / which /, you said, Led you to Duncan / O, these flaws & starts, / [*soft*] (Imposters to true fear) would well-become a woman's story ) at a winter's fire) [*soft*] Authoriz'd / by her grandam / Shame, itself! Why do you make such faces? / When all's done, You look, but on a stool. — Shall be the maws of kites What, / quite unmann'd in folly? — if I stand here I saw him. Fie, for shame! (going back) [*soft*] — than such a murther is.